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_1._ ACTION REOUTRED: NONE, FOR STATION BACKGROUND ONLY. _

RESPONSE TO REF QUESTIONS RE THE SHARING OF INFO WITH LIAISON WILL BED
PROVIDED IN A SEPARATE MESSAGE,”

2. HOS BELIEVES SUBJECT TO BE IDENTICAL TO WILLIAM LEONARD
((OLTMANS)), (DPOB 10 JUNE 1925, HUIZEN, THE NETHERLANDS) , WHO WAS _
ASSIGNED 201-0155221 ON 27 FEBRUARY, 1957, {ON THE OCCASION OF A NAME

CHECK REQUEST AGAINST PNINFINITE FILES FROM NVGIFT, AT THE TIME,”

OLTMANS” WAS” OSTENSIBLY A~ CORRESPONDENT’ FOR-AN OBSCURE DUTCH WEEKLY

GUINEA QUESTION. HE ALSO CLAIMED TO WORK FOR AN UNKNOWN NEWS

ON INTERNATIONAL POLITICS , ESPECIALLY MATTERS TOUCHING ON ASIA IN
GENERAL, AND INDONESIA SPECIFICALLY. HE CLAIMED HE GREW UP IN
INDONESIA, AND THEREFORE KNEW THE AREA AND ITS "CONDITIONS" WELL. IN
ADDITION, HE WAS CONSTANTLY SEEN WITH WHAT A WESTERN SOURCE WOULD
CALL "THE WRONG CROWD", AND HE HAD EXCELLENT CONTACTS WITH ALL THE
COMMUNIST DOMINATED COUNTRIES, INCLUDING CUBA AND WAS ON INTIMATE
TERMS WITH ELEMENTS SUCH AS THE GUINEANS, THE INDONESTIANS, AND THE
EGYPTIANS.

3. ACCORDING TO DIRECTOR 243172, 12 JANUARY 1987, ONE OF THE
LAST ENTRIES IN OLTMANS’ FILE, "OLTMANS HAS BEEN A THORN IN OUR SIDE
FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS. HE HAS HIGH LEVEL CONTACTS IN THE SOVIET
UNION. HE IS INDEPENDENTLY WEALTHY BY VIRTUE OF HIS FAMILY HAVING HAD
A VIRTUAL MONOPOLY ON THE QUININE TRADE AT ONE TIME. HE IS HIGHLY
INTELLIGENT BUT PECULIAR, AND WHETHER OR NOT HE WAS EVER IN THE PAY
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OF THE SOVIETS, HE CERTAINLY HAD BEEN A FERVENT SUPPORTER OF THEIR
CAUSES." THE FOLLOWING ARE HIGHLIGHTS TAKEN FROM SUBJECTS RATHER
LARGE HQS FILE.

4. HE STUDIED BRIEFLY AT YALE UNIVERSITY AND WAS EXPELLED FOR
MISBEHAVIOR (NFI). FOR A SHORT TIME .THEREAFTER, HE WORKED FOR UNITED
PRESS INTERNATIONAL AND "DE TELEGRAFF", A MAJOR DUTCH DAILY
NEWSPAPER, BUT WAS FIRED FROM BOTH. IN 1956, HE MARRIED AN AMERICAN
GROUND STEWARDESS, AND IN ON 10. JUNE 1958, HE WAS ADMITTED TO THE
UNITED STATES IN NEW YORK CITY AS A PRA, A STATUS WHICH HE HELD. UNTIL
AT LEAST 1987. IN 1960, HE DIVORCED HIS WIFE, AND IN 1961, WAS
LIVING WITH A PHILIPINO MALE.

5. ‘NUMEROUS FIELD REPORTS INDICATE THAT IN 1956, OLTMANS
ARRANGED AN INTRODUCTION FOR HIMSELF TO INDONESIAN PRESIDENT:
((SUKARNO)) WITH WHOM HE THEN TRAVELED THROUGH EURPOPE IN 1956 AS
SUKARNO’S GUEST. HIS TRIP FROM INDONESIA TO THE U.S. IN FEBRUARY 1957
WAS PAID FOR BY THE INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT, AND ALL INDICTIONS WERE -
THAT HE WAS BEING USED AS A TOOL BY THE INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT TO
CARRY ON PROPAGANDA IN THE U.S. AND AT THE UN. DURING THE PERIOD
1960-1961, HE SHUTTLED BETWEEN EUROPE AND THE ‘UNITED STATES .

6. SUBJECT NEXT APPEARS IN OUR RECORDS IN 1968, WHEN HE
TELEPHONED THE DIRECTOR OF THE.U.S. INFORMATION AGENCY (USIA) IN THE
HAGUE TO ADVISE THEM THAT HE WAS ANTI-AMERICAN AND TO GIVE THE USIA
INFORMATION ON ANTI-AMERICAN DUTCH GROUPS IN THE NETHERLANDS.

7. j.XIN 1972, SUBJECT PLANNED TO MAKE A FILM ON ECOLOGY IN THE
FORMER SOVIET UNION AND VISITED THERE 23-26 JANUARY TO MAKE THE FINAL

INDICATION IN

8. IN MARCH AND APRIL 1977, OLTMANS GAINED A GREAT: DEAL OF
PUBLIC ATTENTION IN THE U. S. AND THE NETHERLANDS. WHEN HE TESTIFIED
*BEFORE THE U. S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES<ASSASSINATIONS>COMMITTEE ON

*THE LATE GEORGE DE ((MOHRENSCHILDT))’S CONNECTION WITH<LEE HARVEY>
*<( (OSWALD) )>AND THE MURDER OF PRESIDENT<JOHN>F.<((KENNEDY)) .> IT HAD
LONG BEEN KNOWN THAT DE MOHRENSCHILDT, AS PART OF THE DALLAS
RUSSIAN-SPEAKING COMMUNITY, WAS CLOSE TO OSWALD. OLTMANS HAD LONG
BEEN CULTIVATING DE MOHRENSCHILDT AS A NEWS SOURCE AND FRIEND. IN
JANUARY, 1976, DE MOHRENSCHILDT WROTE OLTMANS THAT HE WAS PREPARING A
BOOK ON HOW HE (DE MOHRENSCHILDT) WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR OSWALD’S

* <ASSASSINATION>OF<KENNEDY. >

ie) OLTMANS WHO SEEMED TO REVEAL SOME INTERESTING TIDBITS , SOME OF
ICH’ MIGHT BE CONSIDERED GOSSIP, BUT WHICH MIGHT BE OF SERIOUS

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‘REONDUCTED B E DUTCH SERVICE FOR THEIR OWN PURPOSES AND THAT THETR.
INTERESTS WERE INDEPENDENT OF ANY NWBOLTON INTERE ICE IFO-GF.

“JINTEREST TO NWBOLTON WAS THE BYPRODUCT OF THE TELTAP, AND:

“NOT INFO CONCERNING OLTMANS HIMSELF, THE HAGUE STATION COULD CONTINUE
f[O RECEIVE INFO OFFERED AND TO REQUEST ADDITIONAL AND MORE DETAILED
INFO CONCERNING SOVIET INTENTIONS WITHOUT SPECIFYING THE MANNER IN |:
‘WHICH IT WAS TO BE ACQUIRED. THE BASIS FOR THIS DECISION WAS THAT (A)
MLTMANS HIMSELF WAS NOT THE SUBJECT. OF NWBOLTON INTEREST AND.. )
B)NWBOLTON WAS NOT PARTICIPATING IN THE TELTAP.

10. ON 16 JANUARY 1987, SAN FRANCISCO STATION ADVISED THAT
SUBJECT HAD BEEN ENGAGED IN BROKERING HIGH-LEVEL CONTACTS BETWEEN Al
ARGE U.S. COMPUTER MANUFACTURING COMPANY AND. THE FORMER SOVIET UNIPN"
IN AN EFFORT TO DEVELOP :AND SUPPORT AND ENHANCED RUSSIAN ,
ICROCOMPUTER MANUFACTURING CAPABILITY. . an

11. ON 22 SEPTEMBER 1987, FBIS MONITORED THE ACTIVITY OF
SUBJECT IN MARTINIQUE WHER HE WAS MEETING WITH SURINAMESE CITIZENS
AND ACCUSED FRANCE AND THE NETHERLANDS OF FAVORING THE SURINAME
REBELLION.

12. OLTMANS NEXT APPEARS IN A PRESS RELEASE OF 20 MAY 1992 [BN
HE SOUGHT REFUGE AT THE NETHERLANDS EMBASSY IN PRETORIA, SOUTH
AFRICA, AFTER HE WAS ALLEGEDLY ACCUSED BY SOUTH AFRICA’S SECRET
SERVICE OF BEING AN AGENT FOR NWBOLTON, SAYING HE HAD GONE TO THE
EMBASSY FOR "PROTECTION AND ASSISTANCE: I FEEL UNSAFE HAVING BEEN
BRANDED A CIA AGENT". HE ALSO SAID THAT HIS APARTMENT HAD BEEN
BROKEN INTO AND BUGGEDAND MANY OF HIS PROJECTS HAD BEEN TORPEDOED
BECAUSE HE HAD BEEN BRANDED AN NWBOLTON AGENT.

13. CL REASON: 1.5 (C), DECL ON: X-1.

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